NXP Semiconductors releas medium-power general-purpose transistors with solderable sidepads in DFN2020D-3 (SOT1061D). The 23 new types with Vceo values of 20-80 V offer a collector current of 1-2 A on just a 2×2 mm small footprint. All types are AEC-Q101 qualified and come with an exposed heat sink for excellent thermal and electrical performance...

Diodes Incorporated introduced the AP65355 and AP65455. These adaptive, constant on-time mode synchronous buck converters provide low-voltage regulation with high efficiency, excellent transient response and high DC output accuracy at continuous output currents of 3 A and 4 A , respectively. Typical applications include consumer electronics, such as gaming consoles, TVs and computer monitors, as well as network systems and “green” electronics...

Microchip Technology announced from the Sensors Expo a combined analog and digital current sensor – the PAC1921. This new device is the world’s first high-side current sensor with both a digital output, as well as a configurable analog output that can present power, current or voltage over the single output pin. Simultaneously, all power related output values are also available over the 2-Wire digital bus, which is compatible with I2C...

An international team of researchers from Germany and the US have fabricated for the first time a field effect transistor made of black-arsenic phosphorus. In research published in the journal Advanced Materials, the researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Regensburg in Germany and the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale University in the United States have developed a new method for synthesizing black-arsenic phosphorous...

Almost 50 years before Einstein’s famous gendakenexperiments, Scottish physicist James Maxwell published his own intriguing thought experiment to challenge the inviolability of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In Maxwell’s proposed challenge to this law, he imagined a microscopic, intelligent creature that could open and close a small trap door between two chambers of a gas-filled container...

Murata has launched the MTC1 series of 1 W regulated single output DC/DC converters with nominal input voltages of 12 or 24 VDC and accommodate a 2:1 input range around the selected nominal which allows for use in designs with different nominal input voltages or in situations where wide voltage deviations might occur...

NXP released first medium-power Schottky rectifier PMEG45T15EPD with Trench technology in CFP15 (SOT1289) FlatPower package. Due to the Trench process, the new type offers a very low reverse current of only 30 µA. The voltage drop value remains about the same compared to planar types. Furthermore, it delivers a reverse voltage of 45 V and a average forward current of 15 A...

Vishay Intertechnology announced that it has extended its 157 PUM-SI series of ultra-miniature snap-in power aluminum electrolytic capacitors with a higher rated voltage of 500 V. Designed for power supplies, industrial motor controls, and solar PV inverters, the enhanced devices save board space and lower costs by allowing designers to utilize one component instead of two 250 V capacitors...